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  • Suicide bomber kills 12 in attack on Pakistan election rally

    Date: 2018-07-10 20:58:06 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:94 - ID:7482896

    ISLAMABAD, July 10 (MENA) - Police in Pakistan say a suicide bomber killed a secular party leader and 11 supporters in an attack on an election rally Tuesday in the northwestern city of Peshawar, ABC News reported. Peshawar police chief Qazi ....

  • Russia's Bogdanov, Haniyeh discuss situation in Gaza Strip

    Date: 2018-07-10 20:32:05 GMT - Russia - World - SN:92 - ID:7482818

    MOSCOW, July 10 (MENA) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov on Tuesday discussed over phone with chief of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh the current situation in the Gaza Strip. "During the conversation, Haniyeh described in ....

  • More than 70,000 migrants return voluntarily, reintegrate in 2017 - IOM

    Date: 2018-07-10 14:03:13 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:62 - ID:7482041

    GENEVA, July 10 (MENA) - The UN Migration Agency said that 72,176 migrants returned home voluntarily in 2017 with the organization’s support, through Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programs, according to the IOM’s latest report ....

  • 11th boy rescued from flooded Thai cave

    Date: 2018-07-10 11:10:18 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:35 - ID:7481889

    BANGKOK, July 10 (MENA) - An eleventh person was rescued on Tuesday from a flooded Thai cave complex where 12 boys and their football coach were trapped for more than two weeks, CNN reported. Tuesday rescue operation, which is the third phase of ....

  • Nigerian Army releases 183 children cleared of Boko Haram ties

    Date: 2018-07-10 10:26:06 GMT - Nigeria - World - SN:26 - ID:7481622

    ABUJA, July 10 (MENA) - The Nigerian Armed Forces released 183 children on Monday, July 9, after clearing them of ties to Boko Haram militants, the United Nations Children’s Fund said in a statement. “These 8 girls and 175 boys are first and ....

  • Suicide attack jolts Jalalabad city

    Date: 2018-07-10 10:22:43 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:25 - ID:7481621

    KABUL, July 10 (MENA) - At least ten people were killed and four others sustained injuries in a suicide attack in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar province, Khaama press reported. The provincial government media office ....

  • Pompeo talks tough on Iran while visiting UAE

    Date: 2018-07-10 10:21:59 GMT - USA - World - SN:24 - ID:7481617

    WASHINGTON, July 10 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US wants to show Iran its actions have "a real high cost", while on a visit to the UAE. Speaking to Sky News Arabia, Pompeo said on Tuesday that a focus remains on denying ....

  • Ninth person rescued from Thai cave

    Date: 2018-07-10 10:20:45 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:23 - ID:7481703

    BANKOK, July 10 (MENA) - A ninth person was rescued on Tuesday from a flooded Thai cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped for more than two weeks, CNN reported. Eight of the boys were brought out on stretchers over the ....

  • "They cannot wait us out", Pompeo tells Taliban

    Date: 2018-07-10 09:03:52 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:16 - ID:7481555

    KABUL, July 10 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the Taliban cannot wait the US out of Afghanistan as he reaffirmed Washington’s full support to Afghanistan, particularly to an Afghan-led peace process, Khaama Press ....

  • Chinese president opens 8th CASCF meeting

    Date: 2018-07-10 07:12:04 GMT - China - World - SN:10 - ID:7481404

    BEIJING, July 10 (MENA) - Chinese President Xi Jinping opened on Tuesday the eighth ministerial meeting of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF). The meeting is attended by Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah, Arab ....

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